Top 5 Undergrad Schools of Fortune 500 CEOs

College Search & Selection
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<p>Harvard, Stanford, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, and Cornell, according to a story in today's Huffington Post</p>

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<p>You’re wrong; it was Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia and then a three way tie between UVA, Notre Dame, and Michigan.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Goldenboy, I think you’re referring to total degrees earned [including graduate], not undergrad. Harvard, Stanford, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, and Cornell are the top 5 undergrad alma maters of the Fortune 500 CEOs.</p>

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<p>Nothing beats HBS it seems</p>

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<p>Notre Dame and Cornell are only on the list because they are so much bigger than most schools of the same quality.</p>

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<p>^Notre Dame has 8k undergrads, not that much more than the others.</p>

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<p>top LACs like Williams are completely left in the dark on lists like these that don’t factor in size</p>

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<p>wavylays, you must take graduate school into consideration. Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Stanford etc… have huge graduate Business and Law programs, lager than Cornell or Notre Dame. Even in terms of undergraduate students, Columbia, Harvard and Stanford have 7,000 each, which is not much less than Notre Dame’s 8,000. Penn has 10,000 undergrads, which is not much less than Cornell’s 13,000.</p>

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<p>It was Harvard, Stanford and then a two way tie between UVA,and Notre Dame.</p>

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<p>Here’s an interesting article that explores how elite institutions attract “cultural capital”, develop it, and translate it into personal success:
<a href=“http://media.wiley.com/assets/82/51/jrnls_ABC_JB_arnold705.pdf[/url]”>http://media.wiley.com/assets/82/51/jrnls_ABC_JB_arnold705.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I wonder about the 35 F500 CEOs who never graduated from college at all. Were most of them upper middle class people like Bill Gates who, by the time they reached college age, already had accumulated significant “cultural capital”, therefore did not need 4 years of college to develop it? </p>

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